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A comment on A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat (2009).

Re:A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat (2009) by sprash on Monday August 05, 2013 @04:39AM (#6159001)
All of these tools were not necessary if Networking were file based, like the /net FS in Plan9.

It is the first major occasion where Unix went in a completely wrong direction. The second one was the X server.

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Re:A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat (2009) by justincormack on Monday August 05, 2013 @06:22AM (#6159317)
Make a fuse filesystem for networking then...
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